Re: [NTG-context] fullpage graphic

2006-08-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo! > >> Can you try to create a minimal file to play with? >> >> Inventing test documents from scratch takes a lot of time, time >> that is often not available (like today). Having a small but >> full document will greatly improve your chances of

[NTG-context] texmfstart texexec --make all on the Mac

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, Looks like: texmfstart texexec --make all Put the format files in: ~/Library/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/ I'll have to remember to delete these when I update using Gerben's Context updater. ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.nt

Re: [NTG-context] Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote: > > >> All, >> >> Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for >> the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context >> updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats toda

Re: [NTG-context] Figures disappear with subtextblocks

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
Hans, What does generate formats under tools mean? I have to do something more than: texmfstart texexec --make all ? I'm afraid I don't know what "tools" are yet. On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > David Arnold wrote: >> Hans, Gerben, >> >> Thanks. >> >> However, this raises ano

Re: [NTG-context] couple of metafun questions

2006-08-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/2/06, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > 3. Is it possible to get a line/arrow dashed in two different colors, > like red and blue? Just out of curiosity I tried the following: picture dp; draw dashpattern(on 2 off 6) scaled 5pt withcolor blue; draw dashpattern(off 4 on 2 off 2) scaled 5pt withcol

Re: [NTG-context] units: \spacedimensionstrue fails when using unit powers

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > I'm considering switching from my units macros to the units module. In > doing that I'm trying \spaceddimensionstrue (found in the m-units.tex > source), which is the most common convention in physics tables and > books, rather than using \Times to separate quantities with

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/2/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > David Arnold wrote: > > Taco, > > > > Is this also true about: > > > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip > > Same batch file, so yes. > > It would be possible to convert the batch file into a perl or ruby > scripts plus a one-line batch th

Re: [NTG-context] Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Bowen
On Aug 2, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote: > >> All, >> >> Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for >> the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context >> updater, but I have need to know how

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread wwl
> Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? You have to adapt some batch-files (cmd.exe --> command.com) Wolfgang ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > David Arnold wrote: > >> Taco, >> >> Is this also true about: >> >> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip >> > > Same batch file, so yes. > > It would be possible to convert the batch file into a perl or ruby > scripts plus a one-line batch that

Re: [NTG-context] fullpage graphic

2006-08-02 Thread wwl
Hallo! > Can you try to create a minimal file to play with? > > Inventing test documents from scratch takes a lot of time, time > that is often not available (like today). Having a small but > full document will greatly improve your chances of getting a > quick response. > > Cheers, > Taco > S

Re: [NTG-context] Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: > All, > > Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for > the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context > updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today. > > If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise. > hm, i

Re: [NTG-context] Indentation bug ? Sample

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Alan Bowen wrote: > > Renaud�no bug. The problem (I am guessing) lies in the peculiarities > of my source file, specifically, in the fact that I was trying to > place a figure at the bottom of a page in a text that has lengthy > footnotes before and after the figure, with \setupfootnotes > [

Re: [NTG-context] Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

2006-08-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 2, 2006, at 11:05 PM, David Arnold wrote: > All, > > Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for > the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context > updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today. > > If anyone knows how on the Mac

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: > Taco, > > Is this also true about: > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip Same batch file, so yes. It would be possible to convert the batch file into a perl or ruby scripts plus a one-line batch that starts the interpreter + script, but not being o

[NTG-context] Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today. If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise. Thanks. _

Re: [NTG-context] Indentation bug ? Sample

2006-08-02 Thread Alan Bowen
On Aug 2, 2006, at 5:07 AM, Renaud AUBIN wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is a test document with "french" indentation (placefigure and > placetable are tested with bottom, here, top and auto options): > > \setupindenting[medium,yes] > \setupformulas[indentnext=yes] > \setupheads[indentnext=yes] > \setup

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
Taco, Is this also true about: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > David Arnold wrote: >> All, >> >> Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? > > No, it doesn't work. Command.com is not smart enough > to p

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: > All, > > Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? > dunno, but win98 is a bit outdated anyway .. Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridders

Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: > All, > > Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? No, it doesn't work. Command.com is not smart enough to process setuptex.bat Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/n

[NTG-context] units: \spacedimensionstrue fails when using unit powers

2006-08-02 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
I'm considering switching from my units macros to the units module. In doing that I'm trying \spaceddimensionstrue (found in the m-units.tex source), which is the most common convention in physics tables and books, rather than using \Times to separate quantities with a dot. But it seems not to ta

[NTG-context] cdwincontext

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] column overflow at times --- any thoughts?

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
We've edited that page and the problem is gone. To see another example, consider page 61 of: http://msenux.redwoods.edu/IntAlgText/chapter1/chapter1.pdf On Aug 2, 2006, at 1:20 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > David Arnold wrote: >> Hans et al, Any thoughts on this? >> >> We are using: >> >> \

Re: [NTG-context] Context alternative for Latex's \overset & \underset

2006-08-02 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> [where is the amsl module] $ kpsewhere t-amsl /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/context/maths/t-amsl.tex and that's the only one ('locate amsl.tex' confirms it). The /usr/share context tree is the ancient version that comes with tetex 3.0 (Context 2005.01.31 I think). My ~/texmf tree has the newer C

Re: [NTG-context] Context alternative for Latex's \overset & \underset

2006-08-02 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, WN wrote: > Hi, > > In doing my Latex to Context conversion, I stumbled on two Latex math > commands : \overset and \underset > as in > > \mathcal{T} = \overset{\infty}{ \underset{r,s = 0}{\cup} } \: > \mathcal{T}^{r}_s Why not simply use \mathcal{T} = \bigcup_{r,s=0}^{\infty

[NTG-context] Context alternative for Latex's \overset & \underset

2006-08-02 Thread WN
Hi, In doing my Latex to Context conversion, I stumbled on two Latex math commands : \overset and \underset as in \mathcal{T} = \overset{\infty}{ \underset{r,s = 0}{\cup} } \: \mathcal{T}^{r}_s The page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math_with_amsl mentions the commands stackrel and underset w

Re: [NTG-context] A bug in character alignment?

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Peter Münster wrote: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nicolas Grilly wrote: > > >>>Sorry, I can't see it. The column are right-aligned, which is normal, since >>>there is no alignment-character. >> >>No, it is not normal. ConTeXt Wiki says "if there's no >>alignmentcharacter in the cell, the content will be

Re: [NTG-context] scite line endings

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
David Arnold wrote: > All, > > I know where the line endings choice is on the menu in scite. Seems > to default to cr+lf in windows regardless of the file it is reading, > or am i mistaken? > > Is there way to have it interpret the line endings and keep whatever > form is used when the file i

[NTG-context] couple of metafun questions

2006-08-02 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I'm experimenting with some metafun code and positional graphics to produce a nice illustration for an article. There's some basic questions I haven't been able to solve (and I remember that I couldn't solve them before but found workarounds, but this time it looks like I'm stuck):

[NTG-context] Indentation bug ? Sample

2006-08-02 Thread Renaud AUBIN
Hi all, Here is a test document with "french" indentation (placefigure and placetable are tested with bottom, here, top and auto options): \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setupformulas[indentnext=yes] \setupheads[indentnext=yes] \setupfloats[indentnext=yes] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummygraph

Re: [NTG-context] index (again)

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > It's like this: > > \unprotect > > \def\dosetpageregisterentrya#1#2% Unf., I do not know much about register prosessing, so I cannot say whether it can do this. I hope someone else knows. Taco ___ ntg-context mailing list

[NTG-context] Snapping sectionhead

2006-08-02 Thread wwl
Hallo! While I was reading 'In the Details' to learn more about grid- typesetting, I could not comprehend the examples with grid={broad,...}. Then in section 1.8 I read that grid=line should be a shortcut for grid={broad,high,depth}. But these two variants gave me not the same result! Try \

Re: [NTG-context] A bug in character alignment?

2006-08-02 Thread Peter Münster
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nicolas Grilly wrote: > > Sorry, I can't see it. The column are right-aligned, which is normal, since > > there is no alignment-character. > > No, it is not normal. ConTeXt Wiki says "if there's no > alignmentcharacter in the cell, the content will be aligned in the > followin

Re: [NTG-context] problems with \lcommaaccent

2006-08-02 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to use \lcommaaccent, but with no success until I > commented out the following line in enco-cas: > > % \defineULcharacter Lcommaaccent lcommaaccent > > Any ideas how to solve that problem (otherwise the temporary > workaround will disappear as so

[NTG-context] Floats Method

2006-08-02 Thread wwl
Hallo! In \setupfloats[] what exactly is the difference between textmethod and sidemethod? Compared with the gridsize, why does a 1 point window (method=2) help when typesetting on grids? Isn't 1% (method=1) much more in the most cases than 1 point? Wolfgang __

Re: [NTG-context] column overflow at times --- any thoughts?

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: > Hans et al, Any thoughts on this? > > We are using: > > \setupcolumns > [tolerance=stretch, > balance=yes, > blank=flexible, > rule=off, > distance=2.5em] > > However, once in a while we get column overflow. See page 55 on: > > http://msenux

Re: [NTG-context] scite line endings

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
David Arnold wrote: > All, > > I know where the line endings choice is on the menu in scite. Seems > to default to cr+lf in windows regardless of the file it is reading, > or am i mistaken? > > Is there way to have it interpret the line endings and keep whatever > form is used when the fi

Re: [NTG-context] index (again)

2006-08-02 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 02.08.2006 um 10:01 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need to know if the following is possible in ConTeXt. >> >> If it's not, please don't hesitate to tell me, so I can think of a >> work-around. >> It it is possible, it would be great to tell me how! > > Is this i

[NTG-context] Sample test files (Re: fullpage graphic)

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Wolfgang (and everyone else that needs help), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hallo! > > I can not find a solution for the following problem: Can you try to create a minimal file to play with? Inventing test documents from scratch takes a lot of time, time that is often not available (like today

Re: [NTG-context] index (again)

2006-08-02 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > > I need to know if the following is possible in ConTeXt. > > If it's not, please don't hesitate to tell me, so I can think of a > work-around. > It it is possible, it would be great to tell me how! Is this is inside a register or keyed directly into your docum

[NTG-context] scite line endings

2006-08-02 Thread David Arnold
All, I know where the line endings choice is on the menu in scite. Seems to default to cr+lf in windows regardless of the file it is reading, or am i mistaken? Is there way to have it interpret the line endings and keep whatever form is used when the file is opened?